Tag: Argentina

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 07:07 UTC

  Argentine football ‘dictator’ “Don Julio” elected for an ninth time running

  

  FIFA senior vice-president Julio Grondona, key right-hand man to Sepp Blatter, won a record ninth four-year term as Argentine Football Association (AFA) chief on Tuesday which will keep him in office until 2015.

• Wednesday, October 19th 2011 - 06:47 UTC

  Three men charged with the rape and killing of French tourists in Argentina

  

  Three men were charged in Argentina with murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the case of two French tourists who were found shot to death in a nature preserve to the north of the country nearly three months ago.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 18:42 UTC

  As volcanic ash cloud recedes air traffic returning to normal in Argentina and Uruguay

  

  Regular operations have gradually resumed at the main airports of Buenos Aires and in Montevideo’s Carrasco air terminal, where most flights had been cancelled since Sunday due to ash cloud generated from Chile's volcano eruption, authorities said.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 09:01 UTC

  Mujica: relations with Argentina excellent; Vazquez retiring is ‘no tragedy’

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica currently visiting Germany said that relations with Argentine are very good and forecasted that President Cristina Fernandez will win he re-election bid next Sunday as he had anticipated two years ago.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentine farmers join the fold and say the conflict ‘is over’ and praise CFK

  

  One of the four rural organizations that for several years clashed with the Argentine government over export taxes considers the conflict “to be over” and said that President Cristina Fernandez “remains committed to helping the farming sector”.

• Monday, October 17th 2011 - 18:09 UTC

  International Oil and Gas expo in Buenos Aires with 300 exhibitors

  

  Argentina's 8th International Oil & Gas Expo, sponsored by the Argentine Institute of Petroleum and Gas is taking place this week in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, October 17th 2011 - 17:24 UTC

  Pirelli to invest 500m in Argentina factory to recover Mercosur tyre market

  

  Facing losing market shares in the Mercosur region, Italy’s Pirelli is to build a new radial truck tyre factory in Argentina involving an investment of 500 million dollars. Construction will begin in 2012, with first-phase capacity on stream in 2014.

• Monday, October 17th 2011 - 04:09 UTC

  Argüello insists: Falklands ‘lives off MPA and the British Antarctic Survey’

  

  Argentine representative before United Nations Jorge Argüello insisted in a public statement that ”be it not for the aid from London, the Falkland Islands could under no concept subsist without its natural continent, South America”.

• Saturday, October 15th 2011 - 04:30 UTC

  Argentine September official inflation 0.8%, less than half private estimates

  

  September inflation in Argentina climbed 0.8%, less than half the estimate from private consultants, according to the latest report from the discredited Statistics and Census Institute, Indec. In nine months accumulated inflation reached 7.3% and compared to a year ago, 9.9%.

• Friday, October 14th 2011 - 21:44 UTC

  Falklands’ government responds Argüello’s ‘poorly researched comments’ in Mexico

  

  The Falkland Islands government responded Friday to the Argentine ambassador to United Nations Jorge Argüello for his comments on the Falklands’ economy and self-sufficiency while in Mexico.